Gamsu
Kansui (toxic) · Kansui Radix
한글 감수 · Pinyin Gan Sui
甘遂
Properties 性味
- Taste & nature
- Bitter · cold
- Channels entered
- Lung, Kidney, Large Intestine
- Actions
- Violently drives out thoracoabdominal fluid retention
- Typical dose
- 0.5–1 g in pills only
- Caution
- Toxic; never decocted with Gamcho (eighteen incompatibilities); avoid in pregnancy; expert use only
Appears in 23 formulas 處方
- Free the Channels Powder通經散 12 g · Chief 君
- Roasted Kidney Powder煨腎散 12 g · Chief 君
- Spikemoss Powder卷柏散 4 g · Deputy 臣
- Overcome Damp Cakes勝濕餠子 20 g · Deputy 臣
- Control Drool Elixir控涎丹 40 g · Chief 君
- Minor Stomach Elixir小胃丹 20 g · Chief 君
- Myriad Diseases Pill (Gukbang)萬病元 40 g · Chief 君
- Golden Dew Pill金露元 20 g · Assistant 佐
- Myriad Responses Pill萬應丸 10 g · Assistant 佐
- Roasted Kidney Pill煨腎丸 20 g · Chief 君
- Ten Waters Pill十水丸 40 g · Chief 君
- Navel Paste塗臍膏 20 g · Deputy 臣
- Lygodium Spore Powder海金沙散 20 g · Assistant 佐
- External Application Medicine外敷藥 40 g · Chief 君
- Boat and Cart Pill舟車丸 40 g · Deputy 臣
- Boat and Cart Spirit Protection Pill舟車神祐丸 40 g · Deputy 臣
- Three Flowers Spirit Protection Pill三花神祐丸 20 g · Deputy 臣
- Great Sage Dredge the River Powder大聖濬川散 2 g · Assistant 佐
- Realgar and Cinnabar Pill雄砂丸 6 g · Deputy 臣
- Skull-Cap Powder天靈盖散 8 g · Deputy 臣
- Join Life Elixir接命丹 80 g · Deputy 臣
- Melon Pedicel and Alum Powder瓜礬散 4 g · Deputy 臣
- Kansui Powder for the Ear甘遂散 0 g · Chief 君